Tag: Trevor Ariza

“Yo Trevor, you said you know some secret way to get into the Clippers’ locker room?” James Harden asked his teammate Trevor Ariza. James was flanked by Gerald Green, who was looking around the locker room to make sure nobody was listening too closely to their conversation. Trevor raised his eyebrows; he knew what James…

It feels like Trevor Ariza should be about 40 years old given how long he’s been in the league, but somehow he’s only 32. 32 and still playing big minutes in basically every game for the Rockets. The way he’s going, maybe he can get to 40. He’s already limited on offense to shooting only…

I always kind of assumed that Trevor Ariza was somewhere around 40 percent from three during his time with the Rockets. Just on the basis of how many games he had where he hit a bunch. Turns out I was being a really big dumbass, because he’s shot 35%-ish from three during those four years….

Well, Trevor Ariza showed up I guess? He was the only Rocket who played acceptably from a box-score perspective as the Rockets got blown out by almost forty in an elimination game. If you take his 6-of-12 shooting out, the Rockets don’t even shoot 25% from the field for the game (16 of 65), are…

The Rockets would have had a much easier time in their first round series against the Thunder if Trevor Ariza had been able to hit his three-pointers. He wasn’t the worst offender; Ryan Anderson made three of them the whole series just like Ariza did, but needed eight more attempts to get there. So there…

Trevor Ariza is in the top 10 for three-point attempts again this year. That’s three years in a row now, so we can’t blame D’Antoni for this apparent oddity. An oddity until you notice that he was THIRD in that category two years ago. Somehow it escaped my notice that during the 2014-15 season, the…

The new acquisitions of Eric Gordon and Ryan Anderson are generating the most buzz when it comes to three-point shooters extraordinaire, but there’s one guy that’s been Harden’s buddy for three years in Houston that’s not getting as much love: Trevor Ariza. He’s not a threat to hit ten threes in a game like those…

It doesn’t even feel like it, but this is one of Trevor Ariza’s best scoring games as a Rocket. (At least in his second tenure. His first tenure with them happened so long ago that the only thing I remember from that period of my life is that occasion when I masturbated 8 times in…

“Dear Diary, Well, the Rockets are probably going to miss the playoffs. We just lost to the Suns. How do you even do that? They suck. I guess losing to bad teams is something that happens when your own team is itself a bad team. Hopefully nobody ever reads or further disseminates my private diary…

This is one of Trevor Ariza’s mythical “actual good games”. He has plenty of games that look like good games, but they’re what I like to call “fake good games”. I call them that because he might score some points, but he does so inefficiently while committing turnovers and fouling too much. James Harden has…